Teacher training: formative experiences in the context of PIBID/IFC

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present reflections on the development of pedagogical workshops, as well as their contribution to the training of the scholarship holders of the Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program (PIBID, in Portuguese) of the Mathematics Department of the Instituto Federal Catarinense (IFC) Rio do Sul Campus, Brazil. The scholarship holders developed pedagogical workshops on the mathematical content of the Cartesian plane for 7th grade students at the Deputado João Custódio da Luz Basic Education School. The workshop began in April, when the scholarship holders planned and prepared the materials to be used. In May, there were two meetings with the class. The first meeting was divided into two parts: the first one, which lasted 35 minutes, was to play a bingo game; the second one, which lasted 45 minutes, was to do multiplications on the geoplane. The second meeting, in the next day, lasted 45 minutes and involved activities on the Cartesian plane on a real scale. The purpose of these activities was to promote the construction of mathematical knowledge in an interactive way and give students the opportunity to be protagonists in the teaching and learning process. The experience allowed to the scholarship holders to apply their academic knowledge in practice, and also enabled them to develop new skills such as planning and organizing lessons. It also helped the scholarship holders to develop the pedagogical knowledge they need for their future as teachers.